Oh, the things Nevada’s most senior U.S. Senator, Harry The Reid, says.

2008, in the book “Game Change”: “(Reid’s) encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,’ as he said privately. “